The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15

THE Girl, WHO MADE A SENSA.
TION SEVEN MONTHS AGO

Hotel and Said She Had Deserted a
Base Deceiver Who Made Her His
Wicklow She Came to Shoot the
Jennings Woman in the Winchester
Cottage.
The following facts concerning the alleged
St Augustine girl, in addition to those pub
lshed in the MORNING NEWS on Sunday,
are from the New York World
Dolores Dartmoor, the young woman who
amused herself Thursday afternoon by fill
ing Mary Jennings with sundry pistol bull
lets at West Brighton, S. l., was released on
81, 600 bail yesterday afternoon. When the
Staten Island police locked her up after her
little shooting she told them a marvellous
and moving tale about her great wealth and
her stern, wicked father, with whom she
could not live Her lawyer, A. S. Warner,
added to this tale yesterday, putting in lit
tie amplifications and pretty minor details
that had not occurred to Miss Dartmoor's
fertile imagination as she fabricated her
wondrouS yarn.
''When the cruelty of her father drove
her to New y ork six months ago she was
taken in by the Protestant Episcopal Sisters
on Seventh avenue. below Fourteenth street,
who gave her home. They can tell you
about her character and her conduct while
with them"
a reporter found the Shelter for Respecta-
BILE Girls and Domestic Training School at
No. 81 Seventh avenue, just above Fifteenth
street He did find out about Miss Dart
uoor's pranks-much more perhaps, than
the innocent and unsuspecting lawyer ever
guessed.
On Sunday, Jan l6 last, the newspapers
were full OF the story of Bella Harrington,
who was found unconscious in her room in
the Grand Union Hotel, opposite the Grand
Central Depot Ii was thought she had
taken poison and she was at once taken to
Bellevue Hospital There no traces of poi
son were found in her. but she was declared
to be suffering from hysteria and nervous
trouble The pitiful story she told attracted
the attention OF a lady who visited the hos
pital and she brought it TO the attention OF
the Superior of the Episcopal Sisters of the
Holy Communion That lady visited Bella
in the hospital The girl said she was 10
years old, although she looked all of 26, and
that she came from Albany. A few weeks
before coming to New York she mar
ried n man who believed her wealthy. One
day she found letter in his pocket showing
that he had wife and children alive when
she married him The wicked husband
urged her to live with him, but she indig
nantly refused and ran away to New York.
oDG WOUlu nOU even Jake money IIOI1 MN
to pay her fare nor would she wear any Of
the dresses he had bought for her. Some
unknown charitable persons had paid for
her room at the Grand Union Hotel and she
STAYED there penniless until she tainted from
hunger and excitement. The Sister Supe-
rior was so impressed with Bella's story aud
the deep and effective sobs with
which it was punctuated, that she believed
the girl victim of the unknown mans per
fdy in Albany. She took the girl TO the
Shelter Oh Seventh avenue, and gave her
pleasant home On croSS-queStioning, the
girl admitted that she didn't really come
from Albany, and that her true name was
Dolores Dartmoor. At that time she didn't
happen to have wealthy English nobleman
for a father, with great orange groves near
St Augustine, Fla. He did not come into
view until she reached Staten Island In
fact, she told the sisters that her father had
died when she was years old, and her
mother not long afterward.
The story Lawyer Warren tod of her
Yesterday was that her father still lives in
fine style amid his orange groves, and that
her mother died a year or SO ago. The girl
had been her mothers constant companion
for eleven years past until the time of her
death. During that time she had been
living apart from her husband in various
parts of America and Europe, having been
driven from him by his cruelty. Dolores
had learned five or six languages and was
versed in many accomplishments. As n
matter of fact she cannot write. or
speak English, save in an archaic
fashion that the venerable Bede
himself would be ashamed to call his
own. She spells ''know" with only two let
bers calls gentlemen "gentlemens,n and
PLAYS other tricks with the English tongue
that no person who even half knew 1T would
dream of playing. Some charitable ladies
1 - l. I..1
and sent her TO the Decorative Art School
to learn embroidery and other work in
crewels., Dolores took four lessons and
quit. She said she didn't care for that sort
of thing. Then she began to develop an un-
governable temper, and made herself so
obnoxious that the Sisters sorrowfully con-
cluded they must part with her
''Her actions were SO peculiar said the
Sister Superior, THAT we felt that she must
60" Dolores didn't mind going. Early in
April she announced that she had got EN-
pioyment as medicine distributor" in St
Luke's Hospital. The Sisters afterwards
found out that she was hired only tempo
rarily to take the place of a nurse who was
sick. Some time in April Dolores fell ill
with diphtheria. She was sick three weeks
As she began to recover she said she was
going to live with discharged female
patient who took in washing for a living
Not long after this Dolores was well enough
to walk about. Soon after this she disap-
peared without being discharged or saying
good-by to anyone. Vanished would be the
best word to describe her going out from
the hospital for no one saw her depart.
This brings Dolores Dartmoor's story
down to the early part of last May. She then
went to live with Mrs. Anna McKernan, a
very good, honest woman, who kept board
ers and took in washing in her small home
on Jersey avenue, New Brighton. She was
afflicted with never-do-well husband and
had a hard time to get along To her Do
lores spun her little yarn about having a
rich heartiesS father who was keeping her
out OF her inheritance from her mother
6Nsl she should reach her 2lst birthday,
when the law would force him to disgorge
AT first she spoke of getting 5000 "a year
income from her father, but when days and
months went by and no money was appa,'-
ent, Dolores moderated her story some
what, and said that her mean old
father refused to send her a cent.
Mrs. McKernan didn't abate her
kindness. however, and still sheltered
the girl. Early in May Mrs. McKernan
asked Real Estate agent William A. Col
Inns, who has charge of the Winchester
place, ON Bard avenue, West Brighton,
whether he couldn't appoint her caretalSer
of house. He arranged to give her the
Livingston place. Mrs. McKernan brought
over Miss Dartmoor, who at once repeated
her charming romance about her father her
mother who died a year ago and the fabu.